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The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Ayn Rand
Law, Purpose, Committed
Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Ayn Rand
Control Of Your Life, Order, Purpose
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Ayn Rand
Law, Purpose, Return
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.443, Hamilton Books

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Ayn Rand
Men, Purpose, Type
Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.107, Penguin

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

Ayn Rand
Important, Purpose, Way

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Ayn Rand
Men, Acting, Purpose
Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

Ayn Rand
Errors, Purpose, May
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.472, Hamilton Books

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